Overview
Internship with the Protection Unit at UNHCR Algiers, Algeria, supporting interpretation and translation between UNHCR staff and asylum seekers/refugees, and assisting with protection activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Interpret/translate between UNHCR staff and asylum seekers and refugees in one-to-one interviews as well as in multilateral meetings.
- Support the identification of PwSN and document their needs and protection risks.
- Assist in providing general protection counselling to PwSN, and more generally asylum seekers and refugees.
- Support Refugee Status Determination and Resettlement procedures: Conduct Country of Origin Information (COI) research, legal analysis to support Refugee Status Determination and first instance and appeal decisions, resettlement activities. Assist with the system for the triaging and prioritization of cases for interviews.
- Help determine appropriate responses, including referrals to partners or other relevant UNHCR units.
- Maintain accurate records of interactions, cases, and follow-up actions.
- Support the preparation of briefing notes or summaries for other protection staff.
- Work closely with UNHCR Protection staff and partners to ensure that PwSN receive timely and appropriate protection support.
- Attend team briefings, trainings, and relevant inter-agency meetings as appropriate.
Required Experience
Not explicitly stated.
Qualifications
- Be either a recent graduate (having completed their studies within two years of applying) or a current student in a graduate/undergraduate school programme from a university or higher education facility accredited by IAU/UNESCO; and
- Have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field relevant or of interest to the work of UNHCR.
- Very good command of spoken and written Arabic, French, and English, minimum at C1 level.
- Not have exhausted the maximum cumulative internship period with UNHCR, including any prior internships (8 months for full-time and 12 months for part-time)
